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Referring to the "Soylent" which is a startup that makes a nutritional powder and drink that are supposed to be able to replace meals, Quartz has posted this taste-evaluation article:
[...] As part of Silicon Valley's desire to disrupt everything about modern life -- whether it needs to be disrupted or not -- Soylent has become a popular company for venture capitalists to back and Valley types to be seen with. The company's newest drink, Soylent 2.0, was released last October, and costs $32 for 12 bottles. It has seen a marketing push of late, with advertisements appearing on Facebook, Instagram, and other internet properties that millennials and those that want to market to them tend to congregate.
There are almost as many ingredients in Soylent as there are characters in Game of Thrones pic.twitter.com/sxyuAAOBxy
- Mike Murphy (@mcwm) June 27, 2016The tech team at Quartz decided to try a bottle-live on Facebook-for the first time today. It's safe to say that most of us will likely continue to keep eating food, instead of drinking our meals. But in case you're so fed up with having to carry out that arduous task of taking time to purchase and masticate something a few times a day and are interested to know what Soylent tastes like, here are a few of the descriptions of its flavor that the team came up with in video, and after having the flavor linger for a little while:
Wet cardboard
Sand
Water
Glue
The aftertaste of Cheerios cereal
Licking stamps
Stale cereal
Old refrigerated oatmeal
A taste of nothingness and awfulness
Not food
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jdavidb on Tuesday July 19 2016, @01:25PM
I tried some last year and enjoyed it, enough so that I went ahead and ordered a box. I went through that box and ordered another, but I seem to have stopped. I was using one package for two days, on work days, 2 or 4 days per week. At work I like eating to be a minimal process so I can keep focused on what I'm doing, plus then I get to have my enjoyable meals with my family. Soylent was a good way to get better nutrition conveniently in a way that didn't taste bad to me.
Interestingly enough I thought of Soylent for the first time this morning and had what could almost be described as a craving, for the first time in awhile. I might finish up my last few packages soon because now you actually have my stomach growling thinking about it!